Being free is a lifestyle

Inspiration

It’s easy sometimes to get bogged down and caught up with what everyone else is doing and everyone else’s rules and definitions for life. When that happens, I refer to my inspiration: books and music (but for this place I’m focusing on just the books) that speak to who I am and the woman that I want to be, and have overall provided insight and perspective on life for me. The list is ever-growing and being updated (and just like me, is quite random) but here are some of them:

Books:

-Any and everything by Nikki Giovanni. -No seriously, I could list all the titles that includes, but I’ll just be succinct.

-Anything by Pearl Cleage, the awesome writer whose work inspired the title of this blog. But to be specific, in terms of characters and descriptions of this concept: What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day, I Wish I Had a Red Dress are must reads. Also her newest book, Things I Wish I Had Told my Daughter